Fairfield News

KEOSAUQUA ? Seeking to help improve student achievement, increase literacy and address possible equity issues, the Van Buren Community School Board has accepted a recommendation to adopt all-day every day kindergarten for all students.Superintendent Lisa Beames and administrator Jenny Smith presented and discussed Iowa Assessment Results at the March 21 board meeting.Currently, students go three days a week in ...

The Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office arrested Curtis Virgil Null, 47, and James Kenneth Humphrey, 29, in Brighton at 5:40 p.m. Thursday for criminal trespass of a farm building in Lockridge. Null was charged with two counts of criminal trespass and driving while license revoked.

Monday morning, 21 kids attended spring break activities at First United Methodist Church, including coloring eggs, planting grass seeds and singing songs, including this one about Jacob?s ladder.

A five-year resident of Fairfield has had his trust in the community shaken by the theft of four precious potted bonsai trees from his yard.Richard Hughes? hobby of 25 years has produced hundreds of bonsai trees, patiently and caringly pruned each year to create miniature perfection from seeds and cuttings of regular trees.?I moved here about five years ago,? he said. ?I drove from New York with 75 bonsai trees ...

A Keosauqua woman was airlifted to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City Monday after being trapped in her vehicle two days.The accident involving 29-year-old Emily Ann Borgomainerio was reported by a third party to the Van Buren County Sheriff?s Office around 3 p.m. Borgomainerio was found conscious and alert, pinned in her vehicle on Hawk Drive, northeast of Keosauqua.Borgomainerio was freed ...

The Fairfield Police Department investigated the report of a theft of a Trek bike, valued at $130, at 404 S. Fourth St., Apt 311, at 2:40 p.m. Sunday.Dustin Clair Roach, 23, of Canton, Mo., was arrested at 1:16 a.m. Saturday at Main Street and Broadway Avenue for driving under the influence, first offense.Dallas DeWayne Taylor, 35, of Burlington, was arrested at 3:33 a.m. Saturday at Main Street and Broadway ...

The Fairfield Fire Department responded to an automatic alarm at Parkview Care Center at 3:27 a.m. Saturday, and investigated a faulty compressor on a fire sprinkler.

Prosecutors want a judge to bar defense lawyers from using the constitutional rights to free speech as a defense for Occupy Iowa protesters charged with trespassing at the state Capitol in Des Moines.The Des Moines Register reports that prosecutors say the judge assigned to Monday?s scheduled trial of protesters Hugh Espey and David Goodner should not let jurors consider whether those rights justify disobedience ...